As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Choose people who lift you up.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I’m chasing perfection.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Nothing endures but change.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Vanity is but the surface.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I never fall in love.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.